netdev - Re: Unable to create more than 1 guest virtio-net device using vhost-net backend

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Message-ID: <4BA5F50B.8080302@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:29:31 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, gleb@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Unable to create more than 1 guest virtio-net device using	vhost-net
 backend

On 03/21/2010 12:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> Nothing easy that I can see. Each device needs 2 of these.  Avi, Gleb,
>>> any objections to increasing the limit to say 16?  That would give us
>>> 5 more devices to the limit of 6 per guest.
>>>
>>>        
>> Increase it to 200, then.
>>      
> OK. I think we'll also need a smarter allocator
> than bus->dev_count++ than we now have. Right?
>    

No, why?

Eventually we'll want faster scanning than the linear search we employ 
now, though.

>> Is the limit visible to userspace?  If not, we need to expose it.
>>      
> I don't think it's visible: it seems to be used in a single
> place in kvm. Let's add an ioctl? Note that qemu doesn't
> need it now ...
>    

We usually expose limits via KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_BLAH).  We can 
expose it via KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD (and need to reserve iodev entries for 
those).

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